Salma Hayek Talks Acne, Depression, & Botox

As the cover girl for the May issue of Lucky magazine, actress Salma Hayek was candid in an interview about her struggles in Hollywood.

Starting out as a telenovela star in México, Hayek’s path to the big screen was anything but easy.

“When I was 25 and I left being a soap opera star in Mexico to go try to be a movie star in Hollywood and all of Mexico was laughing at me?...I could barely get work as an extra” Hayek told Lucky.

While you would never know it now, Hayek’s flawless face was once plagued by acne.

Hayek said that the acne was so bad in fact, that “it sent me into a severe, severe depression.”

“I couldn’t leave the house. I’d wake up in the morning and lie there and touch my face before I got up, just to prepare myself to look in the mirror! The next stage with that sort of depression is food: too little, or too much. Guess what I did? I mean, I was fat and broken out, I couldn’t leave the house and I couldn’t pay the rent!” Hayek said.